Eyelit Technologies Version 10.1 Release Notes

Version 10.1 is the most significant release in Eyelit’s history bringing agentic AI, a reimagined demand planning platform, deeper execution intelligence, and hundreds of enhancements across MES, APS, and supply chain planning. Here is what’s new.

Demand Planning

Version 10.1 is a ground-up rearchitecting of demand planning for the AI era. The capabilities below represent a complete departure from legacy forecasting platforms built for discrete manufacturers who need more than a black-box number and a spreadsheet workaround.

Embedded AI with Agent EyeQ

Most AI in demand planning stops at answering questions. Agent EyeQ executes planning and scheduling decisions rather than being limited to decision support and does so with prescriptive inference, moving beyond describing what happened to recommending and acting on what should happen next. In Caddy mode, it works alongside planners surfacing anomalies, explaining demand signals, and drafting exception responses in plain language. In Employee mode, it performs demand planning work autonomously, escalating only when human judgment is required. Every action is logged. Every decision is traceable and explainable, so planners always know what Agent EyeQ did, why it did it, and can override it with confidence.

Traditional UI Configuration Is a Thing of the Past

Planning Modes give each team demand, sales, finance, executive, a purpose-configured workspace with the right dimensions, measures, time horizons, and KPIs for their role. No tickets to IT. No super-user gatekeeping. The traditional screen configuration UI is gone; changes are made on the fly and saved instantly.

Forecasts You Can Actually Explain

Planners have long been handed a number with no visibility into how it was produced. Version 10 changes that with transparent model selection, automatic best-fit detection and blending, and probabilistic forecasts with confidence intervals. Planners define as many forecast streams as their process requires, alongside the standard Statistical, Planner, Sales, Customer, and Consensus streams all managed in a single workbench.

Lifecycle Events Managed Before They Slip Through the Cracks

New product launches, end-of-life transitions, and product replacements have always been managed outside the forecast in spreadsheets, emails, and tribal knowledge. Version 10.1 brings them inside, with lifecycle-aware forecasting rules that automatically adjust demand as products move through their lifecycle and exception alerts that surface problems before they become shipment issues.

Smarter Safety Stock for Constrained Manufacturers

Supply Planning introduces new capabilities in Safety Stock management, including the ability to set comparative priorities for safety stock replenishment. Highly constrained manufacturers can now allocate buffer inventory in a smarter way, even setting Safety Stock replenishment as a higher priority than less critical Forecasted Demand when the situation calls for it.

Advanced Planning & Scheduling (APS)

Version 10.1 significantly expands the planning and scheduling engine’s ability to model complex manufacturing environments and gives planners greater control over how schedules are built, adjusted, and explained.

Oven & Autoclave Batch Planning

Batch thermal resources, ovens, autoclaves, furnaces are now fully supported in the planning and scheduling engine, with capacity utilization chart analysis and a new batch/slice assignment report. Performance improvements deliver faster, higher-quality initial schedules for environments that rely on these resources.

Resource Pools

A new resource type allows users to define pool size and consumption per operation and across shifts, giving the scheduling engine a more accurate model of shared resource capacity.

Resource Affinities — Machine and Cross-Operation

Preference of resources can now be defined across operations, and auxiliary resource requirements can vary per machine alternate in a routing. This enables precise machine-to-machine and operator-to-machine affinity modeling for highly configured production environments.

Gantt Drag & Drop with Persistent Locks

Manual moves performed in the Gantt chart now persist as resource locks across subsequent reschedules so the intent of a manual adjustment is preserved when the schedule is re-run, not overwritten.

AI Infeasibility Explanation

When no scheduling solution is found, an AI agent automatically generates a natural-language report identifying the conflicting constraints, giving planners a clear starting point rather than a dead end.

Sales Order Pegging

A new post-planning process automatically links production orders to customer demand by priority, surfacing on-time, late, and unfulfilled commitments with demand-order level reporting in the Early/Late Analysis dashboard.

Live Schedule Alignment with Shop-Floor Events

Operators can now record an estimated end date on asset downtime. When the expected duration exceeds a configurable threshold, the scheduling engine updates automatically keeping the schedule aligned with what is happening on the floor without requiring a planner to intervene.

Manufacturing Execution System (MES)

Targeted Component Processing

Eyelit MES 10.1 introduces support for component-specific processing at selected steps. For lots with identified components, operators can now select exactly which components process through a step no lot split required. Variable overrides apply only to the selected components, and full component-level tracking is maintained throughout the lot traveler, run card, and lot history.

Operation Preview

Operations can now be previewed before execution directly from the Product Definition, Step Definition, Operations list, and Lot Module Structure pages. Variables and attributes resolve in the preview, and missing or unresolved objects are flagged before the lot reaches the step reducing configuration errors and floor surprises.

Advanced Label Printing

A new Advanced Label Printing module adds approval workflows, eSign and FDA-compliant record keeping, operator side-by-side print comparison, and reconciliation controls. BarTender integration now auto-generates label fields from the uploaded design file, eliminating manual entry and name-matching errors. Granular print, reprint, and scrap rights can be set per label type.

Electronic Component History Record (eCHR) Enhancements

The eCHR framework has been significantly expanded. Three new eCHR modes support post-manufacturing work creating a new eCHR for repairs and returns, adding to an existing eCHR for rework and non-conformance, or bypassing the eCHR for tasks that don’t require one. Profile revision tracking, extended serial number search, a new Item Summary Data line type, and a Separate eCHR per Serial Number toggle give manufacturers tighter control over device history records from start to finish.

Quality

Operators can now roll back a mistakenly entered check value, scrap partial WIP quantities while a check result set remains open, and view check result set status directly in the Item Status view. Controlled checklist types now follow the same Draft-to-Approved-to-Obsolete lifecycle as workflows, BOMs, and recipes. Check Result History display has been improved with user-friendly column names in place of raw pass/fail codes.

Document Management

Controlled documents now require a version increment before any edit ensuring compliance-critical documents are fully tracked. Uncontrolled documents retain full revision history for all edits made without a version bump, giving fast-moving teams flexibility without losing the record of changes.

Reporting

This release adds a real-time TAKT Time report with plan-vs-actual views by hourly bucket, a configurable Quality Dashboard for system-wide quality performance, and the ability to link scrap records to a root cause work centre for OEE analysis. Labour performance reports have been restructured and renamed for clarity, with new User Group and Department filters throughout.

Tooling & Asset Management

Tool Manager has been streamlined as the central hub for tooling and maintenance. A Tool Use Log popup now shows individual use records, cumulative usage, and timestamps. Maintenance override history tracks who made tool use adjustments and when. Ad-Hoc task scheduling has been enhanced to allow temporary scheduling overrides without disrupting the underlying cadence  when Ad-Hoc mode is turned off, the original schedule resumes and the Next Due date recalculates correctly.

Workflow & Workstation

Concurrent workflow task start allows child tasks such as checklists to be started while an operator remains booked on the parent operation particularly useful for operators running a production line while performing periodic quality checks in parallel. Work order search at the workstation now filters by operation name or operation number, and the Stat Profile display is configurable per screen to reduce clutter.

Public API Expansion

The Eyelit public API now covers all common transactions between external systems including ERP, PLM, and QMS significantly reducing the integration effort for connected manufacturing environments.

Usability & Accessibility

A new search field has been added to tree structure displays throughout the application, highlighting matching rows in nested structures without filtering them out. Right-to-left layout support has been improved with CSS logical properties, ensuring correct mirroring for locales. Workflow and Image Map definition pages now support element resizing and a toggle to suppress the details panel while rearranging elements.

Overall, Version 10.1 reflects Eyelit’s commitment to building a single, connected platform where AI, planning, scheduling, and execution don’t just coexist they work together, so manufacturers can move faster with greater confidence at every level of the operation.